Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-04-06
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.25
Review Boudica / Ebury Press:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2000-05-18
Dewey code: 356.16730973
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.51
Review Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit / HarperCollins:
Publication date: 2003-06-05
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.08
Review The Devil's Double / Arrow Books Ltd:
Creator: Marina Castaneda
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1998-06-25
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.34
Review Che Guevara: The Life and Death of Che Guevara / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-09-04
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.29
Review Edward Burne-Jones / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-09-26
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.45
Review The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge of Aviation / The Crowood Press Ltd:
Edition: New impression
Publication date: 1971-03
Price: £4.99
Review One Pair of Hands / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: Laurel Holliday
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-05-04
Dewey code: 820.80928209416
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.94
Review Children of the Troubles: Our Lives in the Crossfire of Northern Ireland (Children of Conflict) / Pocket Books:
Authors
- Barbara Mellor
- Agnes Humbert
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-09-02
Dewey code: 940.5344092
RRP: £12.49
Price: £30.99
Review Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Derrick Murphy
Publication date: 2005-02-28
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.99
Review Henry VIII (Flagship Historymakers) / Collins Educational:
Publication date: 2008-05-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.09
Review The Struggle: Biography of a Fighter Pilot / Mushroom Model Publications:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-05-15
Dewey code: 973.917092
RRP: £22.90
Price: £129.86
Review FDR / Random House:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2006-09-06
Dewey code: 962.02092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.22
Review The Life of Saladin: From the Works of Baha Ad-Din and Imad Ad-Din (Saqi Essentials) / Saqi Books:
Publication date: 2001-05-30
RRP: £25.00
Price: £5.97
Review Marie Antoinette / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:Marie Antoinette, Antonia Fraser's first book in five years, heralds the welcome return of her wonderfully lucid, engaging style as she disentangles myth from fact regarding the life of the still controversial, and misunderstood, wife of Louis XVI of France. It is also perhaps her most assured work to date. The daughter of Empress Maria Teresa of Austria, the 14-year-old Marie Antoinette, or l'Autrichienne, was sent to France to marry the Dauphin in 1770 in an act of political union between the two countries. Despite her husband's preference for the hunting field over the bedroom, and a somewhat inexpressive personality-his final terse diary entry was to be, appropriately, "Rien"-a decade of French courtly exuberance entailed. Her disappointment in marriage gave way to an enjoyment of her position, especially on turning 30, yet an increasing number of libelles and scandalous rumours about the new Queen and her sexual proclivities grew from Versailles' whispers to the shouts of what was to be the revolution of 1789. This was followed by her own awful demise and beheading four wretched years later, after the appalling torture of her own young son falsely testifying that he had been sexually abused by her. Those are the skeletal facts of her life, but Fraser fleshes out the story with her customary composed authority. Her stated ambition is twofold. The book's subtitle, "The Journey", refers to Marie Antoinette's political significance in a union over which she had no control, but also her own personal story, from the ill-educated, overwhelmed teenage bride to the despised monarch who bore the brunt of all the ills of the ancien régime. Fraser, arch debunker, necessarily removes the apocryphal-Mozart the child prodigy saying that he would marry her, the infamous "let them eat cake" comment that preceded her by several hundred years, dressing as a milkmaid at her model village in the grounds of Versailles-to reveal a woman whose misfortunes, she concludes, outweighed her failures. [+]Like the Jemima Shore detective novels she also pens, Fraser displays an unerring ability to ask the right questions. Most of all, though, she writes with an understated, unadorned clarity that imparts her learning with an ease to be both envied and savoured. In 1789, Marie Antoinette famously said to a deputation from the Commune of Paris, "I've seen everything, known everything, and forgotten everything". There could be no wiser, compassionate and judicious reclaimer of her besmirched reputation than Antonia Fraser. -David Vincent.
Publication date: 2008-11-06
Dewey code: 973.927092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.60
Review The Reagan I Knew / Basic Books:
Authors
- Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 327
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story: The Heroic Account of How Pitch Picciotto Survived the Collapse of the Twin Towers and Led His Men to Safety: The Fireman's ... the Twin Towers and Lead His Men to Safety / Orion:
Publication date: 2007-09-18
Dewey code: 958.104
RRP: £18.99
Price: £2.28
Review Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan / John Wiley & Sons:
Creator: Jeffry D. Wert
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1992-03-01
Dewey code: 973.73092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.57
Review From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America / Da Capo Press Inc:
Publication date: 2005-03-03
Dewey code: 944.0142
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.18
Review Charlemagne: Empire and Society / Manchester University Press:
Edition: 1st Vintage Ed
Publication date: 1998-05-01
Dewey code: 973.46092
RRP: £15.95
Price: £5.41
Review American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson / Vintage Books:
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